13 Playful Work Environments That Reinvent Office Space

There's a lot to love about startup culture: the sizzle of new ideas, the innovative partnerships, the roller coaster of soaring successes and surprising failures. Also, the gorgeous, gloriously unconventional workspaces.

Tech companies prize innovative office plans, from the behemoths all the way down to the bootstrappers. Color, playfulness and the occasional extravagant design element dominate the aesthetic of major techie workspaces like Google, with its futuristic sleep pods and micro-kitchens, and Facebook, with its woodworking shops and arcade games